XSF Organizational Documents

The Jabber Software Foundation (JSF) was incorporated in August 2001 and renamed to the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) in January 2007. Scanned copies of the following documents are provided online for complete documentation of the legal status of the XSF:

Certificate of Incorporation — note that this shows the organization name as “The Jabber Foundation” (the State of Delaware requested a change to this name at the last minute, and the name “The Jabber Software Foundation” was chosen by the incorporator)

Incorporation Name — a letter from Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett showing the official incorporation name of “The Jabber Software Foundation”

Tax-Exempt Ruling — the positive ruling received from the Internal Revenue Service regarding the XSF’s application for tax-exempt status

Note: The original incorporator was the first Executive Director, Michael Bauer (then affiliated with Jabber Inc.), who worked with the law firm of Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett on the incorporation. The initial Board of Directors consisted of Andre Durand (then of Jabber Inc.), James Barry (then of CollabNet), Jeremie Miller (inventor of Jabber technologies), and Dan Powers (then of IBM). The initial officers of the JSF were Michael Bauer (Executive Director), Andre Durand (Chair of the Board), Peter Saint-Andre (Secretary), and Stuart Lucko (Treasurer). Since that time, the various officers and Board members have changed in accordance with the procedures defined in the organization’s Bylaws.

If you have any questions about these documents, please contact Peter Saint-Andre, Executive Director of the XSF.

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The XMPP Standards Foundation is an independent, nonprofit standards development organization whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF’s Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).